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We all know today's kids facing a changing world, that the knowledge base of human being grows faster and faster. It is crucial for kids to have the skills to be a self-learner. They can gather information from different sources and decipher the information, connect the dots, and form their own knowledge base and opinions on subjects they need learn. One big building block in this self-learning process is reading non-fiction materials. Reading non-fiction is very different from reading fiction books. With fiction books, there are the storylines attracting kids' interest, making them want to read more. But non-fiction has no enticing storylines, instead, they are fact based. How to identify the key facts or the information you need from the long article about a subject? How to connect two or three seemingly non related articles and draw conclusions? These are all important skills. Today we share some free online resources of non-fiction reading for kids.

9 Free Online Non Fiction Books and Reading Resources for Kids

DKFindOut is a free online encyclopedia for kids with subjects like Animals and Nature, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life, Earth, English, History, Human Body, Math, Science, Space, Music, Art, Literature. With its pleasant visual and videos, it is a great beginning nonfiction reading for kids.

Weird But True is a free book from National Geographic with tons of fun facts of interesting things that you usually don't think about. The readings are short but fun. It is a good start on non fiction for kids

Unite for Literacy is a free app for kids. Most of the books in the app are non-fictions.

Shout Science is a free app with 3 scientists' biography. If kids are used to read fiction books, biography will be a good start of non-fiction for kids, as this is the type that is closest to fiction.

National Geographic Young Explorer is available on the website as well as a free app for mobile devices. It has both English and Spanish. I love the section for teachers with guided lesson plans.

Yahoo News Digest is a free app with daily news updates. I like the family friendly contents and kids friendly interface. It is not easy to find news sources that are kids safe, and so far I have found it quite safe for we to read the news together with my child.

Smithsonian Tribune is one of our favorite. Compiled and edited by subject experts at Smithsonian, it covers various subjects, and there are questions for each article. The articles and questions are leveled based on kids reading skills. Highly recommend for any one who want to improve nonfiction reading skills.

Youngzine is a free news website designed for kids, so kids can have a safe environment to stay updated on things going on around them and around the world. If school teacher sign up an account, she/he can set up a community for kids to talk about the news too. The website also function on mobile devices.

Science 360 is a free app from National Science Foundation with updated science news. It required higher level reading skills, so kids in preschool and early elementary schools will need parents help.

Looking for more free reading resources? Check out 10 free reading programs for kids that continuously Offer Free Books.

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Having lots of books at home can encourage your child to read more. Choosing new books can be a fun adventure. Swapping out old ones can freshen up the supply and help keep your child interested in reading.

But if stocking up on books sounds expensive or maybe even exhausting, the good news is you can do it for free. And in some cases, you don't even have to leave home.

Free hard copies of kids' books

Lots of people still love the look and feel of old-fashioned paper-and-ink books. Young kids may like turning the sturdy pages in board books. Older kids may like dog-earing a page corner or jotting their thoughts down on sticky notes to mark key passages.

There are a bunch of programs like Book Trust and Reading Is Fundamental that partner with schools to help kids choose free or low-cost books for their home libraries. Here are five more places where you can find free hard copies for your child.

1. Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

The country singer started Imagination Library, a program that mails free books each month to kids ages 0-5. It launched in 1995 and now mails kids more than 1 million free books each month. Enter your zip code to see if the program is in your community. If it's not, you can apply to start a local chapter.

Enter your zip code to look for a Little Free Library near you. If you live in an area where there aren't any libraries nearby, you can apply for a free book-sharing box and a starter set of books. More than 1,000 of these "impact libraries" have been donated so far.

3. Freecycle, Facebook, and Craigslist

Facebook is another place to look for people giving away free kids' books. Search local parent groups and also on its Marketplace section. You can also search the "Free Stuff" section on Craigslist to find people who are giving away books and learning games.

4. Book exchanges and book banks

Search online to see if your community has a book exchange or a book bank. Book exchanges encourage visitors to trade in books. Book banks simply give books away.

Some book banks partner with schools and community groups to distribute free books to kids. But some are open to the public. For example, the Maryland Book Bank in Baltimore lets kids ages 13 and under take as many books as they can carry. Teens and adults can take up to 25 books per visit - one visit per month.

5. Libraries and bookmobiles

You can also ask your local library if it offers mail order. Some libraries will deliver straight to your door - at no cost to you.

Another topic to bring up with your local library: book giveaways! Many libraries give away piles of books from time to time. Ask your library if it has free kids' books available or when it expects to give some away.

Free online books for kids

There are hundreds of websites that offer free online books for kids. Some you read by "flipping" the pages onsite. Some you download to your device. Many sites let you search by kids' ages or interests. Here are some examples.

This award-winning program offers free bilingual books for kids in preschool through fifth grade. The free online library has more than 45 Spanish-English e-books that can be read on most Apple iOS, Amazon Kindle, and Android devices.

The Free Kids Books site lets you search for free books by age and subject, and even books with " dyslexia-friendly " fonts. There's also a search feature for English language learners - it sorts books by Beginner English, Intermediate English, and Fluent English. Offerings range from math workbooks to books about bullying to your favorite classics.

Launched in 2004, ManyBooks has thousands of free digital books, including many classics and young adult novels. Genres include mystery, romance, and science fiction. The Return of Sherlock Holmes? A classic set of detective stories. Werewolves of New York? A new four-book romance series. Use this site to find free books for teens.

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Marley Dias (a 16-year-old) has compiled a list of 13,000 books with black female protagonists

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This resource guide was created in direct response to the multiple requests made by educators, parents and students. Like Marley Dias, so many of you have asked for books with black girls as the main characters. And because of you, we have received thousands of books. Here we are sharing with you the first 700 book titles. We have not yet catalogued all the books. As a small organization with only two full-time staff, our resources are limited. Beginning in April, each month we will provide you with updates of new book titles.

This resource includes words of welcome from Marley Dias, Creator of the #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign. It also includes comments from Dr. Lauren Wells, Chief Education Officer, City of Newark who offers us tips on how we can foster and promote reading and literacy among our children.

As the President and Co-Founder of GrassROOTS Community Foundation, I have added a few words and call to action to the guide. My charge to parents and caregivers is a simple one: listen to your children, encourage them as well as promote their reading and literacy skills. Reading is a pathway to freedom and liberty. As caregivers it is our responsibility to develop the imagination of children so that they can dream, create and structure opportunities for freedom and equity.

We have reviewed the titles and descriptions of books to ensure that they fit the criterion of having a black girl as the main characters. We have also catalogued the books by reading level. This time-consuming task would not be possible without your financial donation to hire some interim part-time staff. We could not do it without all of you who donated, our volunteers and the librarians from West Orange Public Library.

Each month we will update the list and continue to serve as an information repository for Black Girl Books.

If you know of a black girl book, not listed here, please send us a copy so we can add it to our collection. We would like to see this list grow. Our address is:

GrassROOTS Community Foundation
59 Main Street
Suite 323
West Orange, NJ 07052

Financial donations are always welcomed. All donations are tax-deductible.

Thank you.

Welcome to the #1000blackgirlbooks Resource Guide. I started this campaign because I wanted to read more books where black girls are the main characters. With your help we have collected over 11,000 books; many of them are have the same title, but we do have lots of unique ones as well. This guide includes 1000 of those books and more is coming.

Love,

Marley Dias
Founder
#1000BlackGirlBooks

Sadly, in today's society we often lack the imagination to deal with some of the most deeply rooted social issues. Family and work obligations as well as our biases can stunt our imaginations; however, as adults it is our charge to foster the imagination of our youth. Marley Dias has an active sociological imagination. She imagined a world where black girls are the main, not minor, characters in children's books. She thought she was dealing with a personal matter, but she quickly learned from the outpouring response from the public that her personal problem is in fact an engrained social issue. Children's literature in the United States and abroad is homogeneous and exclusionary. Black girls are underrepresented and in many cases missing. Girls of color are almost completely absent relative to the majority culture.

As caregivers of children we must nurture our children's imaginations and equip them with the resources so they can be emboldened to act. The GrassROOTS Community Foundation through Super Camp enhances girls' sociological imagination and teaches them confidence grounded in the knowledge of history and self-hood so that they feel confident enough to feel like they can create change in their communities. Each year GrassROOTS encourages girls to develop a social action project. We choose the words social and action carefully. We want our children to understand themselves as social actors, connected to the world. In addition, we teach our girls that to achieve justice they must ACT. The #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign is Marley's 2015 social action project. As Marley's mom and the President of GrassROOTS Community Foundation, I have learned first hand what can happen when we foster and promote children's love of reading, educate them about their community, and their desire to create social change as well as fan the flames of their sociological imaginations.

Dr. Janice Johnson Dias
President & Co-Founder
GrassROOTS Community Foundation
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A love of reading is the most important legacy we can offer to our children and our students. Reading opens windows to new ideas, peoples, places, and experiences. Reading also provides mirrors for students to see themselves and their lives reflected in the characters they meet in books. Reading builds vocabulary and background knowledge, empowering children with the tools needed to express themselves and think about the world around them. Nurturing joyful reading in children primes their brains for lifelong learning and develops important social emotional skills like stamina, reflection, and empathy. As we build readers, we must make reading pleasurable and help children understand that reading is a skill that builds over time.

Here are a few tips for parents and educators to create environments that invite children to confidently embrace and fall in love with stories and books.

Tips for parents:

Model reading. Read, read, read to your child, with your child, or in front your child every day.

Immerse your child in books. Transform your entire home into a reading zone by placing books in every room.

Affirm your child's culture, language, and race by choosing books and stories with characters, places, and experiences that reflect their background.

Awaken your child to new ideas, places, people, or experiences in books and stories by asking them questions and always answering the question they have.

Empower your child by allowing them to choose books to read, whether based on what interests them or on book covers and titles.

Arm your child by always leaving home with books. When your child gets older ask them if they have a book before leaving for school, the doctor, or a long ride.

Cultivate your child's use of language and words. Talk with your child about what is happening in their lives and the world around them.

Build your child's ability to make connections. When you watch television or movies, make connections to characters or ideas in books you have read together.

Expand your child's reading beyond fiction. Children have great curiosity about events taking place in the world, plants, animals, and people. It's never too early to expose them to historical fiction or non-fiction books.

Advocate for curricula, partnerships, books, and resources for classrooms and schools that are culturally relevant and responsive.

Tips for educators:

Model reading. Read, read, read to your students, with your students, or in front your students every day.

Immerse school culture in talk about books. Book talks over the intercom, book clubs, social media chats, and school-wide read alouds are a few ways to do this.

Affirm your students' culture, language, and race by integrating books and stories with characters, places, and experiences that reflect their backgrounds into the curriculum.

Awaken students as participants in their own learning by having them create reading goals for themselves, for example, minutes of reading, chapters read, and reading new genres.

Empower students by allowing them to choose books based on what interests them or on book covers and titles.

Arm your students with the power of their own language and stories by providing them with multiple ways to make personal connections to the texts they read.

Cultivate independent reading by creating comfortable reading spaces throughout schools. Classrooms, cafeterias, libraries, and cozy nooks in hallways are all fair game.

Build classroom libraries of interesting, appropriate, and relevant fiction and non-fiction texts.

Expand your reading beyond fiction. Students have great curiosity about events taking place in the world, plants, animals, and people. Use historical fiction or non-fiction books as tools to capture this interest.

Advocate for curricula, partnerships, books, and resources for classrooms and schools that are culturally relevant and responsive.

Dr. Lauren Wells
Chief Education Officer
City of Newark

Donations are the heart of the campaign. Because we value reciprocity, we donate the books we receive to schools and community members who need them. Children deserve to have windows and mirrors to the world. Please complete the form below.

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